Claudia Jones, International Thinker

Interview with Claudia Bokel, member of the International Olympic Committee

Clearly, the enthusiasm of the spectators. An estimated 15 million people lined the streets for the Olympic Torch Relay through the UK, including 4.2 million in London alone. More than 7 million spectators visited venues in the first 10 days of the Games and 2.7 million spectators visited the Olympic Park. More than 5 million people attended Live Sites where events were displayed on big screens...

McCune - Albright syndrome Claudia

McCune-Albright syndrome (MAS) is classically defined by the clinical triad of fibrous dysplasia of bone (FD), café-au-lait skin spots, and precocious puberty (PP). It is a rare disease with estimated prevalence between 1/100,000 and 1/1,000,000. FD can involve a single or multiple skeletal sites and presents with a limp and/or pain, and, occasionally, a pathologic fracture. Scoliosis is common...

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Prediction of outstanding insurance claims ∗ Claudia

Building reserves for outstanding liabilities is an important issue in the financial statement of any insurance company. In this paper we present a new model for delay in claim settlement and to predict IBNR (incurred but not reported) claims. The modelling is based on a data set of a portfolio of car liability data, which describes the claim settlement of a car insurance portfolio. The data co...

Landau and Kolmogoroff Type Polynomial Inequalities CLAUDIA

Reprints available directly from the publisher Photocopying permitted by license only (C) 1999 OPA (Overseas Publishers Association) N.V. Let 0 <j < m _< n be integers. Denote by I1" the norm Ilfll f2 f2(x) exp(-x2) dx. For various positive values of A and B we establish Kolmogoroff type inequalities ilfU) < , Ill (m) + BIIfll AOk + B#k with certain constants Oke lZk, which hold for every fE 7r...